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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Even Sifu Will Be Damned Too (大师也完蛋)

Most people think when comes to ghost matters, they should
just throw their issues into the hands of a master; sit tight and wait for good
news. Such scene only occurs in the movie realistically speaking. There are
many times even a sifu (master) will have problems too when comes to dealing
with genuine spiritual cases, luckily speaking 99% of the so-called hauntings
are merely peoples’ hallucinations.

Normally only success stories of a sifu are being told while
those unsuccessful ones are being hid under the carpets. Now, I am going to
tell you a story in that even a sifu can be damned with seemingly simple
haunting:

I know a Mao’shan sifu known as Master Look who was once
quite active in Sungai Petani area many years ago. Unfortunately speaking, this
Master Look is now being known as ‘Crazy’ Look since the last incident he
handled didn’t go very well…

About 20 years ago, Master Look’s daughter Helen invited a
few of her friends to play Ouija board in her house when they came over to
spend a night during school holidays. Master Look wasn’t at home then as he had
to go outstation to do some rituals. Despite being warned many times as not to
temper with Ouija board, the ladies continued to ignore the warnings. One of
the reason was perhaps Helen’s father is a Mao’shan master and he can take care
of the ladies when in need…

So, four of the ladies started with the game. They first
drew some letters on a piece of blank paper and then a piece of coin was placed
in the centre of the paper to let the spirit to rest on it. When everything was
ready, each of the players put their index fingers onto the surface of the coin
and start inviting spirits.

After a while the coin started to move as usual and the
questioning and answering session thus begun. In the middle of the game, a big
bang in the room startled the ladies and they all retracted their fingers
simultaneously. Now, this is a big taboo to lift any of the fingers before the
spirit is being asked to leave. The reasons are that spirit may stay with
anyone of the players, also; the act of suddenly lifting hands from the paper
is very rude to the spirit so to speak.

As soon as the ladies lifted their fingers, a strange black
image started to surface on a wall opposite to the ladies. The image looked
like a man and no matter how those ladies tried to scrubbed on the wall, the
black image could not be removed. So, the ladies tried to push a cupboard
hoping to hide this strange image and hope that Master Look would not discover
what they have done.

A day later, Master Look returned his house and found Helen
acted very strangely. No matter what he asked, Helen would just shake her head.
So, Master Look tried to go to his altar to ask for spiritual guidance; but
found that his altar was in a mess as if someone has ransacked the place. Having
no choice, Master Look called me and asked my help to perform a divination. So
I did what he asked and found that he and Helen were in danger because of
demonic intrusion.

I warned Master Look of potential danger and advised him not
to tackle the creature alone with ordinary ghost busting ritual. Instead, he
should use the Mao’shan ritual for getting rid of mountain spirits (山精) and
that more help would be needed. Since I was out of the country then, I called
other Mao’shan brothers to help.

A few weeks later, I returned to Penang and I was told that
Master Look and Helen became insane and were sent to a mental asylum in Tanjung
Rambutan for treatment. A brother said that Master Look want to save his face,
he refused his help and tried the exorcism ritual alone without knowing all his
guardian spirits had left his altar. Without protection from his gods and
gurus; Master Look became an easy pray for the unknown spirit he was facing. So
this spirit possessed Master Look and made him crazy along with his daughter
too. Helen gradually returned to herself a year later but Master Look remained
as Crazy Look ever since.

I am not aware what happened to Crazy Look nowadays because
I have not involved in Mao’shan magic for a long time now. This story is to
remind everyone that even a master can be vulnerable to spiritual attack at
times too even the master is very careful, people around him might not.